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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Mark Durkan (29 Sep 2022)

...from Brexit. Its rights promises have been serially neglected or frustrated, deliberately eroded in this Commons mandate and threatened with eradication if the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, is further relegated or even repudiated. We have to be honest about such divergences and deficits in implementing the agreement. These also include the gross misapplication of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Mark Durkan (29 Sep 2022)

...in the EU charter on social and economic rights, or by the European Convention on Human Rights. We know the EU charter no longer applies to the North. We are looking at a situation where the ECHR applies less and less. Various legislation has already ousted the ECHR as something people can use in the courts of Northern Ireland, such as the United Kingdom Internal Market Act. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Mark Durkan (29 Sep 2022)

...on was making sure that whatever institutions were agreed, there would be strong rights provisions and that those rights provisions would also extend to citizens having the right, using the ECHR to go to court and even overturn Assembly legislation. We wrote it into the agreement. Here we were negotiating to create an assembly but we were actually giving citizens the right to go into the...